Vince Wilfork

I need to be able to lead because a leader will always have to answer questions.

People always come to you to get your knowledge or get some answer.

And I pride myself on that.

And that's the most important thing as a leader is you have to understand you were always being watched.

No, I mean, you might think somebody is not paying you, but you're always somebody is always paying your attention.

They always listen to what you say and they value that.

So you have to be careful as a leader what you put out because people want to follow in your footsteps because guess what?

They heard Vince said this.

You know, not only in football, but like, hey, if I'm talking to, you know, a young guy outside of sports and just having a regular conversation, I'm I'm putting wisdom, giving knowledge.

I try to be supportive, you know, negativity.

I try to leave that alone.

Like, what's the good in people and understanding that?

So my purpose is to lead.

I mean...

all I knew was football.

You know, I think football was my outlet in life.

You know, if I didn't have football,

I can only imagine where I would be.

But football was like second nature to me.

It's like waking up, you know, going to play a game like that's how easy it was for me to be able to sit back and look at a formation and diagnose what's going on.